#also! hot take but some stories work better with animation! especially shows that are very fantasy-esque and have a lot of magical elements!

[hanicchy]

popular opinion but i wish they would stop making live action remakes of things

[writteninlunarlight-years]

Hi Luna!

You wanted requests so i thought of something.

What about a blurb/fic of Cedric Diggory x fem!hufflepuffreader, in which fem is a very bubbly, happy sunshine character but the better they get to know each other, he finds her jealous side,which she trys to hide because she is always so nice. Maybe this surprises him but he finds it cute/hot. 👀

It’s very general but english isnt my first language so i don’t know.

Have a great day lovely 🫶🏻

-🍓🍰

Pairing: Cedric Diggory x Fem!Hufflepuff Reader

Warnings: AFAB reader, Toxic 'he's mine' mentality, Jealousy

Type: Fanfic x reader

Request: Anon

Word Count: Way longer than I anticipated for my first fic

Prompt: Cedric Diggory witnesses the sweet reader be jealous for the first time.

Notes: Thank you so much, Anon! Yay, my first request!!! I'm so excited to fulfill this for you! I hope I am okay with my writing; here's hoping for the best. I have my request page on my blog if anyone else wants to ask away! Cedric also doesn't die in this spinoff. (I always cried so hard at that part) P.S. I do use Grammarly as my spelling/grammar checker. I have Dyslexia, so if things are Choppy or if they look off, please don't hesitate to reach out to me and give me some constructive criticism or suggestions!

Sweet As A Daisy Smells~~~~ Cedric Diggory

You remember your first day at Hogwarts like it was yesterday, even if years have passed. The beautiful architecture, the food, the Witches and Wizards of your year, of course, nothing would beat the year below you and their entrance, seeing as Harry Potter had joined your school that year. However, one small thing might beat what the fourth years have, being placed in Cedric Diggory's house.

Yes, you were like every other star-struck 5th year and younger following Diggory. The only difference between you and them is you actually accidentally made friends with the male. It was purely an accident, not a perfectly strategic mastermind plot between you and your friends to 'plop' you in his path.

It was innocent, really; you had a notorious reputation for being one of the sweetest Witches and Hufflepuffs. Someone needs help with homework: you're on it. Someone needs a quick snack: you're in the kitchen helping the house elves. An animal is wounded and hurting: you're on your hands and knees in the dirt, healing the animal as best you can till Hagrid can assist you. You were overall a genuinely nice person even the Draco Malfoy ran out of insults to throw your way because you were so unfazed: just telling him gently, "I know we all have bad days and feel the need to belittle others, it's okay, I won't judge you for it."

Your masterful plan to 'plop' you in front of Diggory was simple and well executed; you took the initiative to help the quidditch team clean and organize their equipment one night. Your roommate, Elaine Mellonfellow, was the one who came up with the idea, as she was usually one of the three on the team that ended up with that job. She would simply suggest to her captain that you take her place for a handful of sessions so she could 'serve detention.' This was a convincing plan, especially considering Elaine's tendency to doze off during Professor Snape's lectures.

Taking the bait, hook, line, and sinker, Diggory happily agreed to an extra pair of hands to help keep the team's quidditch equipment in top shape. This is what led you to now. It went from a handful of crafted detentions by Elaine to her simply stopping showing up, and you always did. Some would say you should be mad at your friend's obvious ruse to get out of a daunting chore, but you saw it simply as a good friend making sure you got close to your crush and close you definitely got.

Weeks of small talk turned into life stories and learning in detail about one another. You learned about his father's work in the ministry, about how he knew the Weasely brothers through their fathers, how he worked hard to become Quidditch captain, and that his almost least favorite color was, in fact, yellow. However, his years in Hufflepuff definitely helped change that.

While you were learning about Diggory to the fullest extent, he quickly learned much about you. Your fierce loyalty was the only thing preventing you from being in any of the other houses. You never gave up on a task, consistently achieved the highest marks in your year, and helped everyone out as often as possible. Always putting others before yourself, especially Elaine, who he has caught multiple times not being in 'detention' and though he would like to reprimand his chaser for skipping out on duties. He couldn't bring himself out of fear you would stop coming to help every week. Course, this could be solved if he could buck up the courage to talk to you outside of the quidditch tents, but there is a reason why he isn't a Gryffindor. It was fair to say that you were the sweetest, warmest human he had ever met, and he was addicted to you like a bee to a daisy.

All of these stolen moments have led up to today, the day Cedric found out you were, in fact, not just the cutest human in the world but also a vicious opponent in the arena of love.

After dinner in the great hall, you and Elaine make your way to your normal departure point, where she would 'go to detention,' and you would take her place as the ever-faithful cleaner of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team. "Elaine, you are becoming far too obvious that you are not in detention when I am out there with him. What if he thinks I am a weirdo stalker chick who told you not to do your duties?"

Elaine snorted before speaking, "Yeah, cause Mister Lovey Goo Goo Eyes is definitely going to give up on spending time with his precious Y/N." You roll your eyes in frustration, with a slight blush present when Elaine speaks up again.

"Don't believe me, Y/N. He talks about you during our entire rest period during morning and evening practices. You might as well already be his girlfriend. If I hear him preach about how your favorite flowers are daisies again, I will puke." Elaine made a fake puking motion before laughing again at you.

"You look like a maniac, dork." you begin to laugh at Elaine's theatrics. Shaking off your nerves from Elaine's words, you begin to wonder. 'Does Cedric really talk about me that much...What if this is all being read horribly wrong, the man has half of Hogwarts on his side 24/7'

"Hey, now get out of your head; I know that look and that lip bite. Come on you are practically my sister, and he is practically my brother with all the time we spend together as a team. I promise you you got this. Just woman up and ask him out already before someone else does." As Elaine spoke to you, she followed the silhouette of Cho Chang on her way toward the quidditch pitches.

Sighing and following along as well, you felt a slight pang in your heart. Everyone knew that Cho Chang was in love with Cedric—so much so that she even rejected Harry Potter. She was perfect, the best representation of smarts, beauty, and poise that you definitely weren't. You were out there every week helping clean in the dirt and mud, for Christ's sake. You would never compare to her, and that ate you alive. Cho had shown her face at a few of your cleaning nights with Cedric. At first, it didn't bother you; they were the same year, and she could have needed help with classwork. Then, the day Harry asked her out, she turned him down only to show up that night laughing and hanging on to Cedric, making it very, VERY clear to him how she didn't like Harry. You knew right then and there. Game On.

Straightening your back, you turn to Elaine, a smile scarily plastered on your face. "I am going in," you begin to walk towards the pitch when you hear from behind, "Maybe don't smile like that; it's a bit unnerving, love! I'll be in the room of requirements with the twins!" Waving by to Elaine, you finish your trek to the pitch to see none other than Cho Chang clinging to Cedric. The slight pang boils into a full-blown constriction.

To onlookers that night, the smile on your face went from mildly unnerving to straight terrifying. Like a Lioness hunting her pray for her young. To Cedric, he just saw his girl walking up to him. Pulling away from Cho, he ran up to you. "Hi, Y/N; I was beginning to worry you got 'detention' too." Using air quotes around detention, your attention moved from the shocked female to the lovely boy before you. "Oh, Cedric, I would never miss this. Who else would help you? Elaine seems to be getting in trouble often lately. Must be all that time with the twins." A warm blush overcame your face as you rubbed the back of your head gently.

"She sure does. Why don't we get started? I was thinking of a full revamp of the whole broom closet. For some reason, half the team thinks that just haphazardly throwing their equipment in there is the best thing to do." Cedric smiled down at you, eager to start his routine and banter with you. Nodding gently, you began to walk into the tent with Cedric when a small voice spoke out behind you. "So that's what you two do in there; clean. I could always help Cedric. Here, let me lend a hand, too." Cho's voice rang like a small bell. A small bell that made you want to grit your teeth and commit a crime. Cedric just shrugged and turned to you. "I guess the more, the merrier, right Y/N?" You gently nodded your head when the constricted feeling in your chest slowly turned into a whole ball of hate.

The cleaning started like any other day; a soft, small conversation began between you and Cedric. Then it happened...that voice. That smooth, high, annoying voice that made you see red. It was bad enough that she pretended that you guys weren't always cleaning when she was hanging around. Even more annoying was her almost consistent interjecting in the conversation. You could feel your shoulders tensing every time she talked, and it didn't go unnoticed by the two peers helping you clean, either. "Everything alright, Y/N?" You could hear the concern laced in Cedric's voice, pulling you from your thoughts. "Yes I am just fine, a little tired is all but I can keep going theres not much left to do tonight anyway." Cedric nodded softly, placing a hand gently on your mid back in a comforting manner.

Then that voice again: "Cedric, it is getting awfully late, and curfew will be hitting soon. You're a prefect; maybe you could escort me back to my dorm so I don't get into trouble?" You saw it right there—the threat, the classic back-down girly pop, he's mine, the 'I get what I want because I am Cho Chang.' Not Today. "Actually, Cho," a sizeable fake smile plastered across your face, "Cedric and I have a pass from Madam Hooch to be out here past curfew to finish cleaning. You, however, seem to not have one of those. Maybe it would be best if you went back to your dorm now. Alone. Since curfew is in the next thirty minutes." You tilted your head sweetly at the girl, your forced smile still present. To others, you looked like your usual sweet self, maybe even regular sweet, with a little bit of derangement. However, Cedric picked up on your tone. That wasn't your normal tone at all. Holding back his smile, he watched the scene unfold.

"Oh, is that right, Y/N? Well, I am sure that Cedric wouldn't mind walking me back and letting you continue. It's just a short walk to Ravenclaw Tower. I know you would 'Hate' to see someone get into trouble after 'helping' you." Cho looked at you with the same false sense of kindness. You step towards her when Cedric interjected. "Cho is right; it's late, and it won't take long for us to walk up to the tower." You look at Cedric, defeated, Cho smugly standing behind him. "I will be right back, Y/N. Then we can finish cleaning." After his words, he walked to the tent's opening and guided Cho out. You couldn't describe the feeling you were having, sadness, hate, fear like you were going to throw up from anxiety because how did you lose to Cho Chang after everything Elaine said about Cedric liking you. A deep, heavy sigh left you as tears pooled in your eyes, watching the two return to the castle.

You grabbed one of the brooms nearby, not even realizing it was Cedric's, and took to the skies. You should get the heat out of your system. Now, you wouldn't say that you were a Quidditch player by any means. You were simply just fast and graceful on a broom. If they had synchronized broom work like the muggles had synchronized swimming, you would 100% join. However, Quidditch is a rough, dangerous sport, and something about a giant ball coming at your head screamed no, not for me. However, nothing mattered tonight except swoops, dives, quick turns, and sorting through the goals. Anything to take your mind off him with Cho. Cho touching him, Cho kissing him, Cho anywhere near him. As your mind raced, you went faster and faster. Not even noticing Cedric had made his way back.

Cedric stood at the opening of the pitch, arms crossed, watching you sore. Why you hadn't tried out for Seeker was beyond him; your speed rivaled that of Harry Potter. However, knowing your soft, sweet personality, he understood why you wouldn't. However, something about watching you zoom around in a jealous rage was very enthralling. Not only are you the pollen the bee is attracted to, but you are also the bee's sting. Jealousy was a perfect look on you. Smiling softly, he waited for you to calm down and land.

As the adrenaline and tears faded, you figured enough time had passed between them leaving and him returning, probably in a happy new relationship. Landing softly, looking up at the sky, you sighed, then turned to the pitch opening. Freezing in your tracks, you saw Cedric Diggory standing there with a smug look and his arms crossed. "Oh uh hey Diggory um, what's up?" You tried looking everywhere but him. "Nothing much, Y/N," He peered his head at your left hand holding the broom, "is that my broom you decided to use so gracefully in the sky." A deep red blush consumed your face as you hid the broom behind your back, shaking your head. Great, not only did he see you flying, but he also is going to think you're a crazy stalker who doesn't know her place using his stuff. A small laugh left Cedric's mouth as he walked up to you. You kept your head down, hoping he would disappear or maybe you would wake up in your bed, and this was all a horrid dream.

Cedric stopped in front of you and placed his hand gently on your head. "I turned her down, you know." You froze, eyes wide, still looking at the ground. "She asked me while we were walking up to her dorm, but I had to tell her I had given my heart to someone else." You slowly looked up at Cedric, and a soft red glow was on your face. "Though I will say Y/N jealousy is a good look on you. Why haven't you joined my team?" A snort left you, and not believing his words, you rebuttled. "I don't want to get hurt, is all." Cedric smiled, pulling you into a gentle hug. "I would never let anything hurt you, not a Quaffle or Cho Chang." You buried your head in to his chest a small laugh escaping you hugging Cedric back. In your soft embrace, you both failed to notice a displeased Madam Hooch approaching the pitch. "LISTEN, YOU TWO, I GAVE YOU A PASS TO CLEAN, NOT SNOG. GO TO YOUR DORMS." You both pulled away quickly, looking at her before running off laughing hard.

You and Cedric made it to your dorm hand in hand. Sadly, he still had prefect duties for the night while you needed to go to bed for a potion exam tomorrow. Taking your conjoined hands, Cedric places a soft kiss on your knuckles. A rose blush consumes your face. "Get some rest, and I will pick you up in the morning. We can go eat breakfast tomorrow in the great hall." You smiled widely and nodded. "Sounds good, Cedric. I will see you then." As you began to pull away, Cedric yanked you back into him. Looking up, Cedric cupped your face gently and kissed your mouth. The peck only lasted a second before he let go. "I'm sorry I couldn't help myself. The bee is just too attracted to the Daisie's pollen." You snorted before standing on your tip toes and kissing him again. This time, neither of you pulled away. Your arms snaked gently around Cedrcis shoulders, hands getting lost in his soft hair. While Cedric held your waist gently in his hands. When you pulled away this time, you rested your heads together. "Maybe I should be jealous more often if this is my reward." Cedric laughed softly before hugging you one last time and sending you to sleep.

~~FIN~~

-------BONUS------

*peering around some barrels in the kitchens, watching you two have your sweet moment."

Elaine: You both owe me 20 galleons.

George: This is ghastly, but I can't believe he turned Cho down. She is like THE it, girl, right now. She even turned down Harry.

Fred: You are mad he turned Cho down. I am angry that I owe Angela a week of butter beers cause he rejected Cho and confessed to Y/N all on the same night. I swear that woman is a mind reader.

Elaine: Both of you are horrible...I love it. Alright, now to prank Filtch.

(Thank you all so much for reading. This is my first official story back into writing. I am sorry if it is choppy or odd. I am getting back into the rhythm of things. I hope this is good enough to showcase the beginning of my writing journey!)

[themaridenstationchronicles]

I created a new style for myself for drawing the clones and its so crazy easy. So here meet the boys of Mariden.

Description of the boys below the cut

Top row, left to right:

Rocker: proclaimed by his brothers as the "best medic on the whole GAR," Rocker is creative, compassionate, resourceful, and very very good at coming up with devious prank ideas. He and Claptrap are inseparable and often if one is up to mischief, the other isn't far behind. Rocker's creativity also comes in handy when they run out of important medical supplies. He knows exactly what to use as a substitute and rest assured that he will find the perfect plant or herb from the forests of Mariden to cure what ails you.

Dagger: with a temper to rival that of Darth Maul, Dagger is hands down the strongest member of this squad. He's terrifying when he's angry and if he somehow becomes the victim of Claptrap and Rocker's latest prank, they'd better run and hide. Despite his gruff exterior, Dagger does care for his brothers and will do anything to protect them, especially Scrap. Though the two of them have vastly different personalities, you can usually find the two of them working on a new weapon in Scrap's workshop or spotting each other in the gym.

Sarge: this poor man needs a nap like nobody's business but the only way he'll take one is if Rocker sedates him. Sarge doesn't have a temper like Dagger but he's not the warmest man on base either. Gruff and stern, Sarge has a rough past that taught him a lot - some lessons good, some bad - but no matter how bad his past, he's focused to the here and now and making sure his current squad doesn't kill themselves on accident. He may not show it a lot but he loves his men and will gladly lay down his life to keep them safe.

Bottom row, left to right:

Claptrap: the personification of "chaotic hot mess," Claptrap serves as two things at the Mariden station: the communications officer, and the resident prank expert. He loves a good joke or prank and will target anyone (except Rocker; the last time he tried that didn't go over so well). Despite his desires for laughter and practical jokes, Claptrap knows when any one of his brothers is having a bad day and will do whatever he can to help them and cheer them up. He'll tell them stories, make them a cup of caf, or take them outside on a hike. Even if the forests of Mariden can be dangerous, Claptrap is one with nature and is the perfect hiking guide. He loves art and has a handmade journal cataloging the various creatures he spots, and more often than not can be found hanging with Rocker in the med bay.

Scrap: clever, creative, and too curious for his own good, Scrap began tinkering while still on Kamino. Give him a broken Droid, and handful of old tools and about ten minutes and he'll have that Droid up and running like it was brand new. However, his inventions don't always work the way he intended them to, but he's determined to learn from his mistakes and never stop improving. And though brilliant he may be, his common sense and sense of self preservation aren't always in tact. Sarge has had to ban more than one of Scrap's ideas or prototypes due to safety reasons, but that doesn't stop Scrap from trying. You can most always find him in one of two places: in his workshop, or wherever Dagger is.

Visor: by far the most quiet natured clone you'll ever meet, Visor is probably the most mentally collected person in the whole squad (usually anyway). He's got a gentle nature and a heart full of compassion and if any of the boys need an ear to listen or a shoulder to lean on, Visor is gladly there for them. Even Sarge comes to him fairly often to let off some steam. He's not that hard to find: look for him on the lookout tower or out on the landing platform outside, patrolling the area and keeping an eye out for any droids or dangerous animals. He's ever vigilante and won't let anything that could hurt his brothers get past him.

[jess-the-vampire]

what's your opinion on miraculous ladybug?

i consider ML to be kinda a hot mess of a show, it's a show with a lot of cool ideas, but for one reason or another, never quite makes a lot of them work

it's desire to be story focused gets held down a lot because it also needs to be mostly episodic, so events feel like they happen at a snail's pace until s5 where they clearly slammed on the gas because they thought the show was over.

you can tell stuff gets retconned as they go along and that some elements are underdeveloped. Not to mention the elements that are dropped entirely or never touched on.

the show is basically at a constant war with itself, it's got potential but doesn't seem to have the best priorities, especially when it gets more story focused. You can only drag out the romance for so long before it stops being fun, meanwhile you want lila to be your next big bad but she basically vanishes for a decent chunk of the show for example so there's not nearly as much setup as they could of given to make people more compelled in her as one.

and there's more then that, putting what happened with chloe aside, Zoe could be a potentially interesting character if they explored her relationship with her sister more or even with other cast members to get to know her better.

But she's in very little episodes, there's not nearly as much to say about her, and she's given a miraculous so quickly that it all feels like it's there to be a slap to chloe rather then building up a new fleshed out superhero character . That's just an example of not handled well ideas.

so many ideas are good on paper, not handled well in execution.

now that's not to say there's nothing good in it, on occasion, this show can make some good episodes, i loved the paris special, the movie was decent, and the premise of the show is genuinely pretty cool with the kwamis and animal superpowers.

i like a lot of the cast members, kagami, felix, luka, juleka, Nathanial, ect ect

the show can make some great villain and hero costumes

but the show as a whole is still mostly a mess, that even it's highlights aren't enough to save it if you watch it as a complete picture.

HOWEVER, i find the show to usually be an enjoyable hot mess, i didn't go into the show expecting a serious show akin to something like owl house or gravity falls, i came in expecting a ridiculous show that went off the rails more and more as time went on and at this point i watch just to see how bad and crazy it can get. I just don't take it as seriously.

It would be cool if this show had a serious story and handled it that well but i'm in it more for the ride then i am here to be seriously invested in the plot. Even if the show does make me genuinely mad in quite a few places.

Cause this show has a lot of the same problems as like, star vs, like a LOT of the same issues. But star's downfall felt like a betrayal because it felt like the crew cared about handling these things well when you joined that it was more insulting to the audience about how little they did care.

At least ML has the benefit of not being a show i ever took too seriously, and i think that prevented me from being as angry as i could be. Doesn't mean i don't get mad at it, just means my expectations were always a bit lower from the beginning.

i'm here to see how crazy the show can and will get, and hey, maybe on occasion, get to see the team make some good stuff

[demonichikikomori]

Hello! ♡

THE WAY I SCREAMED!! I WAS NOT EXPECTING YOU TO SHOW ME WIPS!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I AM SO HONORED!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING THEM!! ♡♡♡

OMG A KUKO X READER!? AND EVEN A HITOYA X READER!? I AM SO EXCITED YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!! JUST THE FACT THAT YOU'RE EVEN WRITING A HITOYA X READER MAKES MY DAY! MAKES MY MONTH!! I'M JUST SO HAPPY TO SEE HITOYA GET SOME LOVE, AND BY SUCH A TALENTED WRITER TOO!!!

They both sound amazing so far, and the orange peeling one sounds so cute? I've never actually heard of it before so I'm excited to read it!

I'll have to write something with the Buster Bros!! now as thanks, (it might be short though!) perhaps a cute Ichiro x Reader established relationship Valentine's day story? Like what'd he do for you for Valetine's day (and how his brothers will help him with his anime/manga inspired ideas lol)

But yes! I have heard Naniwa Paradise Sake! It's honestly such a good song and is actually my favorite from Dotsuitare Hompo! DH has alot of songs I really like, but I might be bias since they were the reason I got into Hypmic lol I was originally a big fan of them (with Rosho being my favorite! ♡ ) but then I saw BAT and heard one of their songs (and saw Hitoya) and it was game over for me lol

I'm sorry about what happened with your original account though, I can understand how painful that can be! :C

And I loved the pairings they chose for the Utapri Sanrio collab! Natsuki and Wish me Mell was SO CUTE and that was also a banner I considered! Speaking of Sanrio collabs, did you see the merch from the one they had with Hypmic? I wonder if they'll ever have cards in ARB for it!

Thank you again for the WIPs! It absolutely made my day!

Thank you! ♡

AGHHHHHH IM GLAD YOU LIKE THEM!!! I love sharing my wips it makes me feel more motivated to finish the works. Especially when it’s characters I’m into… Hot sexy Kuko and Hitoya… Stan Bad Ass Temple. Show them your ass!!!! AND PLEASE AUGHH YOURE VERY SWEET CALLING ME TALENTED!! I’ve been writing for a super long time as a hobby and I want to keep writing so I get better and better. I write for those who love fictional characters, I want to make the stories they wish to see subconsciously!!!!!! I DO IT BECAUSE I LOVE THE COMMUNITY OF THOSE WHO ENJOY X READERS!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 Oh!! The Orange peel trend is on TikTok!! So basically you can do it with anything but the most popular is an orange! Okay, I’ll make you an example:

You hold out an orange to Kuko, gently requesting him to peel it for you. “Huh? Why do you need me to peel it?” He’s confused by the request and you express to him it’s difficult because of your nails or you don’t like how the rind leaves the citrus scent on your finger tips. He stares at you for a moment before carefully taking your orange and pulling at the outer shell. Kuko was silent as he worked, but he didn’t look bothered by preforming the request. After all, it’s just peeling an orange. With the rind removed, he carefully returned your orange to you. There are parts where juice came leaking through the thin mesh skin due to his roughness, but you could tell he put in his effort to peel it. All because you asked him to.

Or something like that. I think Kuko would want to comment about how you should peel your own orange but he also can’t say no to you heheh. If Jyushi asked him… He’d swat him in the head with a rolled up magazine.

OH MY GOD ROMANTIC ICHIRO VALENTINES AUGHHH HE WANTS ME SO BAD HIM AND HIS DEEP VOICE AND SILLY OUTFITS AGHH!!!! He makes me feel so romantical and I dream of him rapping and I get to watch and cheer him on. Shit I’ll be a background dancer. Omg Rosho bby grl he is honestly a malewife to me. A lowkey foul mouthed malewife. I also kinda like the detail of him refusing to use his accent unless he’s drunk/or pissed cause you can hear it in certain dialogue he has with Sasara which makes me laugh. DH is a very good group and they’re all a bunch of FOOLS!!! CLOWNS!! Sasara got together the nuttiest people he could and decided ‘hey guys let’s rap against these fuckasses from Tokyo!’ icon. Truly.

I was sad for a while but thankfully I wasn’t super far in the game. I did miss Sasara’a birthday… Which I’m not gonna pretend his outfit was acceptable. His friends are fake as hell for letting him walk out of his apartment dressed in HIGHWATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST PUT THE ORANGE SUIT BACK ON DUDE. AND YES I DID SEE THE HYPMIC AND SANRIO COLLAB AAHHHHH!! Omg seeing Ichiro and Hello Kitty was so amazing because Hello Kitty is my second fave my first is Badtz Maru!! I hope we get Sanrio cards and I hope we get an event!!

Rosho teaching Patapatapeppy to spit would be super funny haha.

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish Dish Friday - #17

Brought to you by a marine biologist who would lose her head if it weren't attached...

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

Grilled Sea Bass with Herbs

In ACNH: 1. Purchase the "Cooking DIYs set at Nookling "Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+ 2. Cook at a stove with 1 Sea Bass and 5 Clumps of Weeds

In Real Life: from Various

Fish of Choice: You want a fish that has a thick body and skin, so most bass - anything that is called a bass, anyway - is fair game, including freshwater varieties. Also, take off the head and tail if that's not your thing, but it's a good idea to keep the rest intact for this dish.

Other Ingredients:

Olive Oil Lime / Lime Juice Salt & Pepper Your favorite fresh herb(s) - parsley, marjoram, oregano, dill, or basil.

Get the recipe and serve with a hot veggie and potatoes.

I'm fully aware that cooking the entire fish is really not everyone's cup of tea. After all...it's not like you're going to eat much of it, if at all. So, you can just lose it, especially after cooking and letting the actual meat retain all of the benefits. But, let's talk about fish heads, because the anatomy of them are equal parts familiar and foreign to us mammals.

Let's start with the familiar - a fish's head, just like any animal in Craniata (a proposed clade that includes all Chordate animals with a distinct skull made of bone or cartilage - so, aka vertebrates), has eyes, nostrils, a mouth, and ears! Just like us! However, all of these things are highly adapted for life underwater, so they work differently than ours. To save space, let's talk about how the skull itself is built.

Fish skulls are extremely flexible, but there are differences between the groups. For sharks, their jaws aren't solidly attached to their skulls, so they can launch them forwards to capture prey. And no one does it better than the goblin shark. VVV

The rest of their heads are pretty immobile, like ours, with the sole purpose of encapsulating the brain and sensory organs (eyes, etc.).

For a lot of bony fish, though, it's a whole different story. A lot of fish have just about as much dexterity in their skulls as we do in our hands. The sudden opening of their mouths and stretching the associated bones all the way out creates suction that forces prey into their mouths. This is called "hydraulic transport", in which the fish is actually manipulating the water suspending the object of interest, not the object directly. This is some high-tech feeding! So explains why a lot of bony fish lack teeth or have very tiny teeth. They don't really need them!

This video really shows you just how flexible and mobile fish skulls are! Fish have at least 20 moving parts in their skulls. You only have 1 - PATHETIC.

And there you have it. Fascinating stuff, no?

[scalproie]

mk and subscorp!

I'll do subscorp in another ask so here's mk!

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

• Favorite character: I sure wonder 💙❄️💙

• Least Favorite character: honestly I dont really have a least favorite character as much as I mourn their wasted potential, so to that list you can add like... all the new additions to the playable roster of mk11. and also Kotal Kahn. on paper? his concept is pretty interesting. In execution? Boring and I dont like him.

• 5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): subscorp because I have eyes that can see, sareehan, uuuuuuh kenshi/ermac cause I find it funny and uuuuuuuuuh idk. cageblade liutana and taneela. idk im a boring bitch when it comes to ships

• Character I find most attractive: I SURE WONDER 💙❄️💙 but ngl scorpion and kitana have it going on too

• Character I would marry: none idc

• Character I would be best friends with: I guess I could vibe with takeda? but other than that idk and idc I dont ask myself these kind of questions

• a random thought: literally the only medium on which I feel the mk storytelling can reach its full potential is in a downright animated show. Defenders Of The Realms is definitely not the perfect mk show on account on being from the 90s and very clearly aimed at kids, but it has a lot more value a lot of mk fans give it in terms of characterization, and with the success of hyperviolent and gorey shows like Invincible and the likes, WB NEEDS to greenlight a few seasons of a mk show. There is simply too much characters with their own storylines to fit in a single movie in a satisfying way, just look at the legends movies, BUT if the screentime was split in like, 60% Raiden + the shaolin monks against Outworld, 20% Cage + the special forces and 20% Ninja drama for one episode, then 20%-60%-20% the next, then 20%-20%-60% the next, well I think it could work a lot better in terms of pacing, narrative, and character development. Plus the characters of mk are SUPER SIMPLE AND BASIC, aka the best kind of character to add depths to. The games actually kind of already do that in the current timeline, focusing on only one character at a time to progress the game's story, but its held back by the gameplay, ironically, because unless you're a wierdo like me, people dont usually wanna sit thru 20min of cutscenes where the characters do nothing but talk about their feelings, especially in the haha gorefest video game.

• An unpopular opinion: hot take followed by a cold take: d'vorah owns as a character both in her unique design and her role in the story, I wish she could kill more fan-favorite characters. BUT it sucks when said fan-favorite characters could be killed by other characters with a lot more satisfying weight in the narrative and that I can think of them at the top of my head.

• My Canon OTP: lol i wish

• My Non-canon OTP: lmao💙💛

• Most Badass Character: I could be predictable and just say sub zero again but ngl half the cast are like, some of the most badass characters I've seen in a while.

• Most Epic Villain: I am partial to The Shangster, funny evil grandpa, and yknow what add Quan Chi too, but ONLY when hes funny

• Pairing I am not a fan of: lol 90% of what this fandom comes up with, it ranges from "i dont really care but cute!" to "yeah I dont see it" to "I actively despise this".

• Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): mandatory sindel mention, uuuuuuh the whole cast? at some point? Love those characters so much but theres like 11 games, 6 movies and some comics so of course Im gonna be angry with some decisions.

• Favourite Friendship: Jax and Sonya :)

• Character I most identify with: subz when hes looking at the realms merging and hes about to be crushed by the falling ceiling but hes pushed away by scorpion

• Character I wish I could be: scorpion when hes waking up off-screen in subz's arms after getting caught in an explosion of the One Being

[tmisaccidentreportbook]

MAG010, Vampire Killer

Case #0100710, Trevor Herbert Release date: April 14, 2016 First listen: 14th October. I remember being on the back track for this.

Hadn’t realised it until now but we get introduced to two of the biggest players in The Hunt domain back to back; Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert. Seems fitting as in later stages they very much come as a pair. There’s even a symmetry, she appears first and we lose her first. It may have been down to writing choices influenced by 2020’s own apocalypse, but thematically it works. Also, introducing Trevor after the episode Julia talks about her father does potentially usher Trevor into a surrogate paternal role.

- I remember seeing the title and thinking, ‘oh god, the archivist is going to have a field day with this one’, especially after hearing the derision on the words ‘Self proclaimed.’

- Trevor may have been homeless and marginalised but so far has the most agency in any of the statements we’ve heard. He becomes a player in his own story, not an innocent by stander who become collateral. He learns and he changes. Admittedly, this statement does encompass his entire adult life, rather than an isolated event. He may also be the first Avatar we hear directly from, if he is well within the influence of The Hunt by now, though there’s a possibility Julia was already under it’s sway in her statement. But I think this statement stands out because it exhibits a level of awareness and agency from a statement giver we’ve not seen yet. The fact that that statement giver is a marginalised member of society who has a history of drug use and has been homeless most of his colours his statements and makes them more likely to be dismissed out of hand due to circumstance, all to The Entities advantage.

- He’s brought vampire teeth in with him, love a bit of show and tell. Sharks teeth is probably a good comparison for the vampires mentioned given their feeding methods described.

- The possibility of this being a death bed confessional, both for the murders committed on humans and regarding the existence of vampires, does throw some doubt on the validity of Trevor’s claims. Could this be one last piece of sensationalism for a life that has been in ‘public view for so long …[he’d] become kind of an institution’? Could this be a murder confession packaged in imaginings influenced by drug use, trauma and rough living? Or could this be a dying man trying to warn others?

- Jonny’s take on the vampire fascinates me. Similarly how in MAG001 I though it was going to be good old fashioned ghosties, Jonny takes my expectations and Gothic tradition and just fricking punts them out the window. I love this idea of a vampire being ‘more an animal than a man.’ It’s scarier yes in that it’s difficult to understand and the morphology is alien and terrifying, but it is no where near as clever as the traditional vampire. Your Gothic vampire is dangerous because they are clever, they’re brimming with knowledge and charisma from ages past, they are so much smarter than humans, who are little better than farm animals. There’s also the decades of media making them hot, I see you, you go you crazy monsterfuckers, have fun kids, stay safe, but that just gives them another level of danger because humans be horny for sex and/or danger sometimes. But these vampires being more animal like, is a complete departure from the Gothic tradition. Yes, being more animalistic is scary and an unknown, but it’s easier to predict as it operates on a more primal level. Cornered, it’s going to come up with much few courses of action than a fully intelligent being may.

- Telepathic communication or hypnosis or what ever it is does seem to be something it retains in common with the Gothic tradition, or more accurately is something the Gothic tradition had and modern retelling have run with because you can make that horny… if we ignore, y’know, consent. Thankfully, we don’t get that here with Sylvia McDonald, camouflaged as an old widow, but there may have been a bit of that with Robert Arden, leading an intoxicated woman away from a club and back to a residence. But telepathic communication or hypnosis would indeed make sense if the throat was as occupied with feeding mechanisms as described.

- ‘Evil has less power in the daylight hours,’ ...oh boy howdy, I really wish that was the case. Possibly is with the Big Name evils, but the common everyday little evils? They’ll smile and shake your hand in the street, before committing atrocities and call it ‘implementing new legislation’.

- ‘I was hit by a stale, coppery smell’. Again, Jonny is using the evocative smells to flesh out a scene. And again, it’s in a statement pertaining to The Hunt.

- The vampire’s paths in the dust. Not long ago, I did a course on vermin control for work and I was introduced to the phenomenon of rat pathways. Rats generally move along the same path way when moving around their territory, forming noticeable runs, typically moving along routes previously used and remembered using muscle memory and touch. I kinda feel the vampire has behavioural pattern.

- The offer of rotting fruit. Another instance of the creature mimicking human behaviours while not understanding them, and also, y’know, appears to be squatting in an un-lived in building, but I thought also this could be a little bit of The Corruption showing its’ hand. Between the food the two boys need and the books that Trevor said he’d read in the years since. Maybe something there about the two young men looking for love and shelter after years of terrible family life and rough living, and being offered a mockery of it.

- Separating the brother in different rooms put me in mind of it creating a living larder. Although why it didn’t lock the door I don’t know. Maybe it expected its’ hypnosis to hold for longer. But it puts me in mind of spiders binding flies for consumption later, or the shrike impaling prey on the spikes of plants to create a grizzly pantry.

- The actual murder and feeding scene. Just some good old fashioned body horror and predator/prey dynamics.

- The vampire’s primary sense being smell in this form makes sense and seems to be another tick in the box for this being a manifestation of The Hunt and more animal then thinking being. Doesn’t communicate vocally, hearing probably down. Doesn’t recognise visual cues enough to emulate, vision might not pick them up. Sensory scientists who know their shit, hit me up, I am pulling this ought of my arse at gone 10pm.

- Seeing the vampire get slow after eating put me in mind of a line Bryn Monroe’s character says in the Rusty Quill Gaming Deadlands Halloween special Jonny ran. About an ‘animal getting slow after it’s eaten’. You see it in humans, taking a nap after a big meal, but also in animals. I can be a combination of things, from recovering energy spent in the act of hunting or in actually swallowing their food, to the energy required for the process of digestion itself, as the blood, or whatever the vampire has as an alternative, heads to the digestive system.

- Trevor’s description of killing the vampire puts me in mind of the time I was bitten by a tsetse fly while in Malawi. Like a horse fly on steroids these things, bit me right between the shoulder blades. My friend sitting behind me on the bus watched as it flew out of the collar of my shirt and smushed it against the window, leaving a smear of blood that seemed far too big for an insect of that size to have extracted.

- The vampire being described as dry, implying it has no circulatory system of its’ own. Indeed when describing fighting Robert Arden, there seems to be hardly any description of blood spilt as the vampire is being dispatched.

- Fire, something Jonny’s kept from the traditional manual of how to hunt vampires. Granted, fire is one of those things that traditionally will mess up pretty much anything.

- Trevor himself does disclose that he thought the who experience was a bad reaction to witnessing his brother’s murder. Although the doubt appears to leave him over time, he does acknowledge that there was a time when he doubted, and I think in doing so acknowledges that there may be doubt about his word.

- ‘While I was pretty sure of what I was seeing, I was still hesitant to attack with no provocation and no plan’. What he is describing is mad as all hell, but also he is the most sensible person we’ve possibly come across. He’s aware of the threat and his own limitations and he makes preparations in  fashioning a stake.

- He describes ‘the flesh (of the vampire) was cold and spongy’, perfect for drawing up warm blood after a feed.

- The vampire’s reaction to presumably the heroine in Trevor’s blood is intriguing. Somewhere I have a tweet saved, somewhere about vampire’s supposedly getting picky with potential meal sources being of different medications when in reality they’re been sucking on asbestos workers in years past. I’ll link it when I find it. But the idea of this being the vampire’s first encounter with hard drugs seems doubtful, and it’s first encounter with substances seems near impossible. It’s taken an intoxicated woman from a club. I would not have been surprised if past victims were likewise inebriated or under the effect of some party drug or another if its’ hunting grounds was the club scene.

- Kudos to the unnamed woman though, for having the wherewithal and bravery to stick around, find a knife and start hacking. Especially considering she needed to get outside, possibly throw the window.

- ‘I was always more careful after that.’ See, he’s learning, he’s growing.

- The inflection on ‘statement ends’, like the Archivist has a new brand of irritated on him. The statement may be worthless in his eyes, but it is incomplete and that can not stand.

- ‘Regardless, there is substantial evidence to support the version of events told by Mr. Herbert in all aspects’… Wait, what?! ‘...except the vampirism.’ Oh, c’mon!

- The idea that specialists were contacted regard the vampire teeth amuses me greatly because, what?, they just rocked up on someone’s desk? What explanation did they give? And how hard did they lose their shit when they realised it was an unrecognised species?

- For all the Archivist doesn’t put much stock in Trevor’s story, the fact that the ‘file number is listed among multiple information requests from the Institute’s government and law enforcement contracts’ implies that there are some people who are interested in what he has to say, one way or another.

- One thing still stands out to me here though. The fact that the statement identifies Trevor as a vampire ‘killer’ and not a ‘hunter’. He’s not hunting at this stage of his life that he’s recounting, these are ‘right place right time’, opportunistic kills. Not hunts. Not yet.

[gorgeousgalatea]

"After" for the ask meme! :D Also, I don't think I'd heard of Bungou Stray Dogs before, but as a big fan of detective fiction and supernatural stuff, I'm intrigued... 👀 ~ Clyde

Thank youuuu <3

I'm gonna talk about Bungou Stray Dogs first because it's easier and I admit it took time to grow on me, I started out groupwatching the anime with some friends and the pacing's a bit clunky in the beginning (although better in the manga; the anime adapted some side material and its first integration was not elegant) plus some "anime, why?" tropes, but overall it's fun and unhinged in ways I jive with very hard. It is on the surface about Hot Troubled Superpowered Detectives vs Hot Troubled Superpowered Mafia but the extra zest to the premise is that most of the major characters and their respective powers are based on famous literary authors and their works. And I admit I didn't have enough familiarity with Japanese literature to have taken too much note at first, but naturally the Hot Troubled Superpowered Detectives and Hot Troubled Superpowered Mafia need to have desperation team ups, so enter the antagonistic American Guild. At which point if you want to see Herman Melville summon a giant flying whale ship and F. Scott Fitzgerald punch people with the power of money...you can.

Anyway, After! This is going to date me because I know for a fact I came up with it in late 2012, early 2013 and it explains everything about why I keep circling back to it and why I haven't managed to get it to work yet. I've always been a fan of fairy tales, especially fractured fairy tales, and in 2012 I was *deep* into MCU fandom and still riding the high of the first Avengers movie when this deeply cool animated action trailer came out for a new fairy tale inspired show called RWBY. So y'know, naturally this resulted in a plotbunny for my own dark, action heavy, overambitious would-be saga featuring reinterpretations of all those greatest hits destined to collapse under its own weight. But at the very least I'd like to do the beginning of the story justice and hopefully trim the fat from there; every child in the kingdom is taught to fear the fae and keep their true name hidden, but bastard daughter Cinder has only ghosts for company and is desperate to do whatever it takes to escape her abusive household, no matter the cost. (Excerpt under the readmore since I yelled about bsd too long lmao)

Talia had taught Cinder the spell, the most beloved of her dead. 

Radiant, lovely Talia, with her fair skin and gold curls–Cinder had always felt so ugly beside her, although Talia had always insisted it was not so. Talia, who’d laughed when Cinder had protested the danger.

“How strange the world has become,” she’d said, hands cool and insubstantial as she guided Cinder through the motions. “You hide your names, call the Fae monstrous–perhaps you’ve simply confused the good with the bad! The Queen That Fell cursed me at my birth, it’s true, but three of the court offered me blessings to take its teeth. I fear I will find this world a stranger when I wake, to hear it so.”

How are you so certain you sleep when I have only ever seen the dead, Cinder tried to ask, but Talia had laughed and waved it off.

Your rose-tinted world must be nearly a century old.

I have never heard of your kingdom.

But Talia had simply shook her head and pressed her hands back to her. “Hold it close,” she had said. “It is the only comfort I can give you till I wake.”

[socially-normal]

Solo Leveling : Arise

The new Solo Leveling Arise game dropped like an hour ago or sumn and I wanted to dump my thoughts (From Launching the Game to the end of the Tutorial)

Non-Canon Compliant = Red

Canon Compliant = Blue

Pet Peeve = Green

AJUUUUU Nice ! ✧･ﾟ:*

The animation art is better than the anime and it's gen kinda funny. Like obv the animation for the anime is a higher quality in terms of movement but the game really understands the style and energy of Solo Leveling. (Though the anime's animation gets better and better as the anime draws on, the game is good in the beginning which was a big miss in the anime. Seeing the statue's actually look like how they felt reading the manwha was cathartic. Sad to say they didn't make the main statue as hot as it is the second time you see it in the manwha but hey what can you do)

The art style is just SOOOOOOOOOOO good

The visuals for the game are just mwah mwah mwah. The surrounding maps when fighting story enemies aren't canon complaint which like for such a highly anticipated game is a bit disappointing, but it makes up for it in the rest of the interfaces. I always love seeing how the <System> is interpreted in this genre. It's much more true to the manwha itself than the anime did with it which is funny since the anime used a very 3D model for it to show that the [System] was out of place in the world where a 3D game used 2D.

I'm a sucker for the comic panels coming in like an animated slideshow, it's so cool. Imo it's the peak way to respect the og work when you don't have the time or budget to animate them.

The game's extras have really cute voices, I'm a woman liker but I think the guilt attendants the game added in to facilitate stuff are so fun

LIVE LAUGH LOVEEEE new characterssss

The EXP icon just being Sung Jinwoo's face is so funny and for what

The visuals again are so good looking. The quick menu interface is SO well set up that you can understand things with a glance, I also like how it's themed in the way Jinwoo's [System] would be. Uber sexyness

I like what they did with Rasaka's Fang, it's cool in the manwha and obv cuts had to be made for a weapon's redraw ability so it's nice to see how the game made it look like the same blade but how it would look in a more real setting.

Negative Comments . |☂˚｡

I take it back before, the 2D art quality gives such a bad vibe, like its not a bad quality per say it's just really odd looking when they fr could've used their 3D models. Especially when a TON of it is super different in art style and it makes it so suspicious looking. If it isn't done with malicious reasons then it's a super bad social move cause the marketing team should've warned them on what or what doesn't make people think art is AI online.

One thing the anime does better than the game visually on is the transition between Sung Jinwoo as [The Weakest E-Class] to his main look in the series

The game massively caters to fans of the Solo Leveling manwha which don't get me wrong I love when a adaptation knows who the original supporters are, but the anime understood that the [System] and [Gates] genre is pretty new to anime fans. Solo Leveling, rightfully, was MANY of people's first manwhas with the settings and even more people's first exposure to it in anime which is why it took the time to explain what mana crystals were, why people raided gates, the ranking system, slipped in how they determine your rank, etc. The game just assumes you know all of that so it's not a good way to attract fans if the game is their first exposure.

Related, it adds a new feature with activity funding which while getting funds based on your rank is a feature in some [System] and [Gates] settings, it's not in Solo Leveling which can confuse some fans again.

The sprint is super crunchy, it takes a lot of work to know how to use it even out of combat

On that note the animations are so long that if there's anything timed later then it's gonna be a game breaker

The sprint animation is so long and stiff that actually it's unusable in combat, in the main story the enemies are MADE to be too weak to kill you but after it's gen a massive nerf. ESPPPPPPP in the job upgrade thing, it's SO hard to do that

Difficulty Scaling - On that note too actually the job change boss was WAYYY too hard to be in the middle of the tutorial stages where you couldn't die even if you didn't use any skills T>T

More of a pet peeve but I hate locked tutorials, like I get wanting to keep me on track but like let me go to the SETTINGS at least man...

Sung Jinwoo's ENG VA is the only really good one in game. All the main characters have super good voices. But then the side characters just have such bad fits for their VA in English, wouldn't know about Korean yet though.

Just nottttt a fan of like- character profile in their dialogue thing lately- Especially if it's drawn when the character themselves an animated model. In an age of SO much AI art even in games it just feels like such a bad move to be leaving an opening for those kinda comments. It would've wasted less time of an artist, giving the benefit of the doubt there was one, to just use stills of that 3D model you already made.

Average comments ┊•°.

The "Intense Music" is so repetitive it'll quickly give you a headache to the point that if you don't play a lot of games with sound on like I do then it'll stay off to never return. The music overall is kinda repetitive but none of it is AS bad as the Intense Music they have during a story event, the others you can tune out if you try but for some reason not the intense one? Not every game can have like Inscryption level background music but it would've been nice to get something less grating especially when ur trapped in with it for some spots.

The [Gates] reminds me a ton of Path to Nowhere's style for it with like the pillars. Just personally not a fan of that visual in any game.

The health bars are kinda long? I just don't get the point of a x10 health bar for a boss when you're knocking off half of them with one skill. But hey maybe it feels nice for other gamers

[fasa-umich]

The Origin Story of Tendra || Kendra Le, FASA's 2023-2024 Co-Performance Chair

Hi! My name is Kendra but some of you may have met Tendra… Just FYI, those two are not the same. So, I would like to walk you through my journey being in FASA.

Chapter 1: Twin 1

I want to start by saying, I am not Filipino. I am Vietnamese. Going to UofM I didn’t really know what to expect or what to get involved in. It all started when freshman year I bumped into Ashley, who told me I should join FASA when I had brought up that I was from the Chicago area and did battle during high school. She mentioned that FASA went to Battle the previous year and was planning on taking a trip to UIUC for FACT, which I found really intriguing because many of my friends go there. She really gave me the rundown of how FASA worked and told me to sign up to be in a FAM/LIN and not even knowing what that might’ve meant for me, I trusted her and did it anyway. 

So… My first FASA “event” was actually an afterset at Ashley’s house where a handful of the other freshmen and I showed up for “anything but a cup” and of course… on time. Board was scrambling to set up still and I still remember that night very clearly and Amanda and Celeste showing up as animals hehe. 

At some point, people started mistaking me for Ashley and vice versa for some reason, and either you see the resemblance or you don’t. Regardless, she is still my twin.  But I want her to know  how much I appreciate her for all that she has done for me. 

Sorry Ashley for the rug!

Chapter 2: Twin 2

I pulled up to Halo Halloween with a group of friends dressed as Sanrio characters but little did I know my lineage was also Sanrio characters! 

Fast forward, now, here I am going to FACT with a group of people that I’ve never met before. I hop into the university van and the first thing Emily Paras says is “ I think you’re in my Lin”. Then Nate Tran says, “ I think you’re in my fam!”. Not knowing what any of that means I’m like “Oh, cool,”. This is where I’m sitting in the back seat with Jess and Adrian and they’re CODING. Anyway, we got there and Emily introduced me to Kris. She says “ This is your ate,” and that my lin twin, Sofia, wasn't able to make it because she was sick. Of course I had to stalk her but her following ratio was scary. I took this opportunity to find out more about performances and then joined PCN dances, which was one of the best decisions I’ve made. But also can we take a moment to acknowledge the fact that I won PUSO Merch through their giveaway?!

That night, we had a senior x freshman bonding session and during hot seat, I got asked which senior I was looking forward to getting to know and I said Kris because she’s my ate. 

So real quick shout out to Kris: Thank you Ate Kris for letting me, Sofia, and Jenny spend countless nights and hours at 815 talking about everything and anything. As your double ding, I have looked up to you in so many different ways and you have really made me feel comfortable in sharing whatever it is that I am going through. I can’t express how much of an inspiration you have been and I really hope that we will continue staying in touch. 

Shoutout to all the freshmen that I met here 🥹

Especially Eli who blew up the air mattress and woke up next to a cockroach!

Fast forward again, Kikilan was having their first lin hang at Slurping Turtle! This is where I met Sofia, so I guess we can call her Twin 2! I am going to skip over the lore but who would’ve thought that we would be bonding over being twins! I must say I love all my Kikilan girl bosses.

Chapter 3: Twin 3

Well now, I’m like “hmm, what if I became an intern?” 

I didn’t even apply l o l.

But this gave me the opportunity to get to know the other freshmen better. We had freshmen pre-games at Markley and more specifically Taryn’s dorm, and boy were they unforgettable memories that we created. 

Look at this one! 

Anyway who knew this Cali Boy would be the reason for the revival of Tendra…

Chapter 4: Throwback Tendra

So how did I end up in this position when I’m not even Filipino??? 

For some context, I am from Skokie, IL, the LARGEST village in the US. (Don’t ask me what that means). Going into high school, we had a huge Filipino student body and most of my friends since elementary school are Filipino. My sister and I both had good friends that were Filipino. Originally, I wasn’t too involved in my Filipino Club, Kapit Bayan because I was more focused on my other dance club. Until it was my sophomore year and all my friends had competed in Battle of the Bamboo and won third place, I was dragged to join and unfortunately during my year we did not win… But I must say it was a thrilling experience! From actually slicing my friend’s scalp to rolling off the 5 foot stage. (You can ask me about it after ) We were also one of, if not the biggest student organization. Right after, COVID hit. Then at the beginning of Junior year, I was asked by the current coordinators if I would be interested in helping coordinate battle with them. I was hesitant at first but then accepted anyway. I spent hours researching and story boarding and it was extremely hard during covid. However when senior year came along unfortunately I dropped out of being a coordinator. Still, I was very familiar with Filipino culture and always felt a sense of community.

Chapter 5: As(h)endra Arc

Back to the question of how did I even end up in this position? I received a message from Ash asking if I would be interested in running as his co because of my experience with Battle. Of course I was hesitant because I wasn’t sure if this was my place to step up in a leadership position especially since many times when I tell people I am in FASA, they always ask why I’m in it because I am not even Filipino. Many times this did make me feel weird about being so involved, but FASA itself has never made me feel like an outsider. I ended up running because I felt that Ash’s ambition to bring FASA back into Battle as a competitor was something that I could help bring to life. 

With both of us living being from Chicago or whatever, when summer hit, we spent hours and hours either just hanging out or working on FASA stuff. I must say, many of those hours were spent grinding Valorant… so @ FASA Hater we are coming for you this Rice Bowl. Even being in Chicago, we made the road trip back for Kalayaan and then Blondra became a thing!

Then when we got back to school, we were already sucked into the PCN grind. I just want to say that I am so proud of everyone who joined a performance even if it was their first time. Everyone truly grew so much and I hope everyone was able to get what they wanted to out of it. Everyone looked amazing on stage! Starting as a general member being on the outside of the circle to being the one saying the chant and starting the hype circle was such an amazing experience.

Then of course, Battle. We went through many battles with this. 17 hours of FASA for 5 weeks. How is that even real?! There were many times where Ash and I were really discouraged and worried about how our vision was gonna turn out. Many times where we were troubleshooting our story board, worrying about cultural accuracy, if we had the funds (*shoutout Andrew!!), and having enough people perform. It felt like a constant struggle with there being so many uncertainties going on and many times where neither of us wanted to do anything but we still pulled through. But even then, I felt confident that we would win. 

Again I would like to sincerely thank everyone who performed and helped us bring our vision to life. Thank you for your patience, and trusting us to lead you into Battle even when we were doing this for the first time, too. I really hope that you guys are proud of your accomplishments as much as I am proud of you all. 

But more importantly.

To Ash:

Hi. I know that we’ve gone through many ups and downs, but I’m glad that I was able to experience this with you. I would have to say that there were many times that I felt like we weren’t doing enough and it really stressed me out.  I know that I focused a lot on appreciating the general members, but I want to say that I acknowledge all the hard work that you have put into performance. Looking back at our year, we let our ambition drive us and it was a really fulfilling and full circle moment especially bringing home our well deserved trophy. I am really proud of us for being able to create FASA Pamana and bringing FASA back to Battle as a competitor. I am really happy with our results and thank you for bearing with me. I also had a lot of fun practicing for FASApalooza and I think our creativity really brought FASA performance to another level. I don’t know if I would’ve been able to grow this much if it were anyone else.  So once again, thank you for everything. It has been a pleasure working with you. 

Chapter 6: Back to Tendra

So, Tendra.. Tendra really started when Eli’s mom was guessing Taryn’s name before Kalayaan. Then for some reason, Philip Churchley says “It starts with a K and ends with Tendra,”. Now, Tendra has been revived! But also, for those of you who don’t know… people would mix me up with Taryn. This makes her Twin 4. In conclusion, I found my own little happy family within FASA. Papa Eli and his quadruplets: Tendra, Karyn, Pip, and Fifi. 

But lastly, my message to board as Kendra:

Dear Board,

Thank you for supporting me and Ash through our vision. I’m glad that I was able to start the Taho train. I appreciate all of you for all the hard work and dedication that you’ve put into making FASA a wonderful and welcoming community for me. I will forever cherish our memories together and wish you all the best in your future endeavors. And if you ever encountered Tendra, no you didn’t.

Tendra signing off.

[goombasa]

An Appreciation Post for Game Devs

The game industry isn't doing so hot nowadays. It has a major PR problem, giant corporations are gobbling up smaller companies, or even companies of the same size over and over again, basically doing away with any meaningful competition, and at the same time limiting the mainstream gaming space in what is produced.

Even so, however, I think that there's still a lot of creativity to be seen, most obviously in the Indie scene, but also in larger companies, in small and surprising bursts. I still can't believe a game as good as Hi-Fi Rush was shadow dropped the way that it was. And not only that, it came to us from a major studio, it was a concise, linear beat-em-up (albeit with a really clever gimmick in its rhythm-based combat), and while it's received from TLC afterwards for balancing and bug fixes, it was, from a structure and story standpoint, completely finished upon release.

And even with all these problems, it's usually not the fault of those on the ground floor, those who are trying to make the games. Many issues with the industry stem from the upper echelon, those in business suits who are always pushing to cast the widest net or put out games with such overblown budgets that they need to hit astronomical sales numbers in order to be a hit.

Not saying that there aren't certain developers that can be issues. Folks can get weird when they get a taste of power, and some folks take advantage of being in a position of power. But in general, I feel like game developers, the artists, programmers, testers, animators, musicians, sound designers, actors, and problem solvers, and everyone in between who work hard to try and bring together a mishmash of models, art, code, and music to make something we can all find enjoyment. I feel like, even after forty or so years of video games being a staple of the entertainment industry, we still take for granted just how much of a miracle it is any of these games get made, especially with how much more goes into making them compared to the limited technology of the 8-bit, 16-bit, and even the 32- and 64-bit era.

I started my own game dev journey recently, and at this point in time, I'm really only learning how to properly use my chosen engine, and it's already intimidating. I think we've all had times where we've thought to ourselves that there was something we didn't like about a game and wondered what the devs were thinking or that we could do better. I'm guilty of thinking this way as well, and it's something that I've actively attempted to stop doing as time has gone on, because it really isn't fair of me to assume that anything in a game is there because the developers were lazy or that they didn't care. Most of the time, it's the opposite. Most of the time, those poor devs were working overtime, putting in hours and hours and hours each week, often times with no guarantee that they'd actually get paid for said overtime, crunching hard to make sure some function or feature was actually put into the game, or that they'd actually make a mandated deadline.

Game devs are a passionate bunch, but that passion is so often taken advantage of in this industry, resulting in very unhealthy practices that can lead to burnout, psychological issues, or worse. And there's no guarantee that a person working on a popular game will see any appreciation for it unless they were a big name on the project to begin with. The credits sequences for these games just keep getting longer and longer, so much longer than even your typical movie now. And those are the people that deserve the respect and the kudos when the game comes out great, and sympathy when things come out poorly, because, with rare exception, it's not their fault.

Show your favorite developers kindness. Show them understanding. Even if you don't like what's been turned out, be courteous towards those who worked on it. Direct your (Constructive) anger towards a corporate structure that is at odds with the creativity of the craft. Be kind. Encourage the developers and demand that management do better. Criticism is fine, but please, don't attack those that are actually making the games. They're doing their best.

[tribow]

So I watched Dive!!

Dive!! is a sports anime that unsurprisingly focuses on the sport of Diving. A diving team of high school boys that are somehow not gay face the struggles and drama of competition while they are pushed to their limits to be ready for the Olympics.

Can high schoolers go to the Olympics? I haven't watched the Olympics in a hot minute I'm gonna look it up. ....okay you can dive at 14 years old godamn.

That tangent aside, Dive!! is a surprisingly realistic take on the shounen sports genre. In most other stories a character might have some super power or special ability. The main character might be some gifted genius aiming to be the best of the best through hard work and training. The protagonist wins through the power of friendship or something of the sort. We do get a bit of that in Dive!!, but not much. Dive!!'s characters are ones that have already been diving for years. They don't try to introduce you to the sport by making the main character the new guy. One of them is practically a pro from the start and he genuinely remains the best on the team even though he's not the main character. The main character does eventually strive to be the best, but only after completing a character arc where he finds where his true motivations lie. The divers do not get better because of their own skills, but rather because of their coach guiding them the whole way.

I say all this because it's a more realistic portrayal of what competitive sports are really like....which brings me to my next point. Dive!!'s story is not really about the sport. It's about the emotional struggles of competition. The main character's conflict is not based on his performance, it's based on how the competition affects his emotions and daily life. This competitiveness affects the whole cast outside of one character whose conflict revolves around his traditions, wants, and needs.

Dive!! certainly provides a unique angle to the shounen sports experience. The only other story rocking the vibes I can think of is Whistle! (My vague memory of Whistle!'s anime is that it sucks. I read the manga a very long time ago and loved it though. Big fan of socc...I mean football). Is Dive!! good though? Eeeeehhh....it's alright. Without getting too into it, there's some parts to the story that feel a little contrived. There's this romantic sub-plot that reaches its emotional climax then gets completely dropped until the end. It's a super unsatisfying resolution to the sub-plot. Characters can get pretty stressed about something and then just not worry about it again very shortly afterwards.

It fumbles a bit, but overall I'd say the story is handled well. Also it's both intentionally and unintentionally funny and that definitely distracted me from getting hung up on parts I didn't like.

The studio animating this is Zero-G. I've never heard of them, but at the least I'd say the animation is handled alright. There's this weird way they handle water reflections on skin, but other than that it doesn't look bad. The animators even do some seriously good diving shots especially on the last episode. That last episode looked very good. Seems like a neat studio based off of this show.

Also the composer goes hard for no reason. More power to her, but I was not expecting the soundtrack to go so hard.

Surprisingly pleasant watch from Dive!! I'd recommend it if you're looking for a sports anime that is more realistic and less flashy.

[keefwho]

July 12 - 12:40am

Today started off rough, but improved greatly. I was still coming off of a hurt tummy from the night before, but I ended up drinking my coffee and eating breakfast like normal. Instead of working on the commission I was SUPPOSED to work on, I decided to do something else. I still made the day’s money but I felt weak for not being able to do the usual. I also didn’t want to mess it up since I really would have had to force performance which tends to hurt results. I started feeling really good in the afternoon and was expecting groceries my parents were picking up for me. Problem is, they took 3 hours to get here with it on a hot summer day and even in a cooler, a large portion of my frozen stuff thawed completely. This time I ended up telling mom that I’m not okay with the food in this condition so she could take it or throw it out. Next time I’m insisting that they not only bring the cooler, but always have the car air-conditioned and to be home within 90 minutes. I can’t put up with this food shit anymore. VRchat tonight was very fun, and I was happy finally being able to show my friend her new avatar which is what I worked on today. I was worried about it because I had a bit of trouble with the shading and animations, enough so that I had to ‘salvage’ it. I don’t know if thats the best word though. Basically I have a very structured workflow, and it was struggling to compensate for some parts of the avatar so I ended up not having protocol for what I was dealing with. That makes me feel like I’ve failed in some mild sense, or like Im underperforming. In reality, I’m no expert and its only expected that I’ll run into new problems the rest of my life. Either way, I got through it and I’m proud of the effort I put in and how it came out. 

I know I’m in a sort of rut right now and I think I’m pulling out of it. I’d consider it a normal rut, life is always ups and downs. I still like to try and see if I can get myself out of it though, or if I can lessen how deep I fall in. Right now I have very low confidence with my art but I know that if I jump back into deliberate practice and brute force my way through some warmups, I’ll realize that I’m completely competent like always. Socially I’ve been struggling to make solid connections with people, at least from my end. I’ve had a hard time being interested in all but a select few people and that should be okay except I’d consider this to be a deeper, long term problem. Its especially bad right now, but I’ve always struggled with finding people interesting. Maybe I have too high of expectations. I’m afraid to admit that might be it, and it might stem from a personal overconfidence. The book I’m reading has really made me realize that I’ve been adhering to a story about myself that I’ve made up based on my experiences and actions. Part of that is thinking I’m better than I actually am, or that I can even exist on any kind of scale to begin with. In reality, I’m a highly dynamic human being just like everyone else, and realizing that should bring me closer with others. Thinking of myself or others as special is alienating. We are all in the same boat. We all have thoughts, emotions, hopes, and dreams personal to us. Taking that to heart is helping me make the deeper kinds of connection I want with people.

[delicrieux]

☆ﾐ 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚊𝚢 “𝚘𝚑”

PART 10: BIG DICK IS BACK IN TOWN

y/n is back in brooklyn for the holidays. thinking that a stream will make her feel less homesick for cali, she starts working on her famously titled hentai.free.srv. what was supposed to be a relaxing stream turns into a special delivery about two hours in.

─── corpse husband x reader ─── soc. media + written fiction! ─── word count: 2.2k ─── ❥ req: Here's one... You know those apps for delivery like Domino's or whatnot... What if reader is streaming Among Us with Corpse, and reader mentions they're hungry and Corpse offers to order them food, and readers like no no it's fine... Then there's delivery at the door (Corpse ordered beforehand) 

author’s note: fucky format is also back in town baby!!! also if you find any mistakes - no u didnt <3 thank u everyone for enjoying this story sm i literally cant believe how feral yall going strawberry cow was a nuclear explosion im still recovering tbh. got an ask a while ago and decided to incorporate it into myso. happy holidays everyone! myso will continue on monday!

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Indeed, being soft on any social media platform was the biggest disgrace and needed to be eliminated post haste. Moreover, it was a slippery slope - once you start flooding your timeline with cute imagery and heart emojis, what will stop you from posting inspirational Facebook quotes? Disgusting. If Rae were here, she would chide you (not you thinking about her as if she’s dead or something). For once in your life, you feel like you deserve it. 

Alas, you hope this little chaos you’ve caused is enough to throw everyone off. The stans, especially. You know the hashtags, you’ve seen ARMY scourging for info online with the same fervor and ruthlessness 1 Direction fans hacked airport security cameras just to spy on the boys. If you had any dirty secrets online, they are out to the public now - thankfully, besides the Harry Styles stan account (with edits and all), you have nothing. Though, now that you think about it, exposed nudes would have been better than your Punk!Harry edit receiving almost a million views. God, your life’s a fucking mess.

Your fans aren’t the only ones out for info - you, too, are trying to decipher Rae’s message. Code: Barbecue Sauce. The two of you had come up with it roughly two years ago, around the same time when you promised that if you didn’t find significant others by the time you’re 40, you’ll just marry each other. It was one of the many rules found in your friendship codex. Barbecue Sauce signifies information - an exchange of information. And depending on how it ends or begins (”So I’m sitting there” alludes to Rae, “On my titties” alludes to you), secret data on that person is given away, usually free of charge. 

But why? And to whom did Rae give away what? You had pestered her mercilessly and even sent some voice messages where you were crying. You were only crying because of a video of a grandpa smiling you saw on TikTok, but you are a snake, and so you put those tears to good use. If streaming doesn’t work out, you’ll just become an actress. Hollywood would love you. Your PR firm sure as fuck wouldn’t, though.

Rae was having none of it. She said you’ll figure it out eventually. Told you to channel your superior puzzle skills. You were quick to remind her that you can barely count to ten without having an aneurysm. Oddly serious, she admitted that she worries for you sometimes. Why only sometimes?! you demanded. She merely sighed. uttering under her breath something that sounded closely to “Boke.”

You leave her for barely a week and she’s already neck deep in the gay volleyball anime, hoodie and cardboard cutout and everything. Your life is falling apart.

But Brooklyn is nice. It had snowed when you stepped off of the plane. Thousands of snowflakes sprinkling into your hair, dotting your cheeks and nose. You missed this sight back in Cali. You missed your parents, too. 

Home cooked meals, old sweaters, your old room and about 40GB worth of old high school pictures on your computer. You went through them all one night. Some were stomach churning, cringe inducing nightmares. You were especially fond of those. Texted some of your friends that were still in Brooklyn, met up, decided to bake. Bad idea, Rae was the resident chef back in Cali. Besides laughing till your stomach hurt, and almost burning down your kitchen, nothing all that significant happened. Somewhere down the line, at about 3 am, half-way through a cheesy rom-com you had the overwhelming urge to text Corpse.

That’s where the problems really started. God, you missed California, missed being in the same timezone with a guy you hadn’t even met yet, how embarrassing is that?! You missed skating around and taking pictures of the beach in the setting sun, sending it to him, silently wishing he was with you to admire the view. 

You really want to call him. And to hang out with him. But for some reason, the thought of that springs up immediate anxiety and you shy away from asking. Him sending you cute good morning texts doesn’t help, either. Maybe it’s better he doesn’t know that you’re a blushing, stuttering mess each time you read “baby”. 

Late evening. Your stream is already set up, people are slowly trickling in and you greet them with a grin and a soft “Hello! Hi hi!”. You did your best to make your room a perfectly chaotic backdrop - led lights, an embarrassing amount of anime merch and plushies. You always try to balance out your weeb side by dressing hot as fuck for your streams - today’s inspiration just so happens to be egirls. Mostly because you watched one too many egirl make-up tutorials on TikTok, and also because you’ve been listening to Corpse’s song all day.

Yeah, no, who are you kidding, you dressed up this way because you were hoping Corpse was watching your stream. You didn’t forget your cat headphones, either. You know he likes them. You want to make him suffer. Perhaps then, finally, he will ask you out, so you wouldn’t have to.

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“I feel like,” You start when you put away your phone, staring idly at the chat, “I feel like I need a new name for you guys. Calling you guys after two years of streaming is just... weird, no? I also don’t respect men so I don’t want to call you guys. Like, so many creator’s have, like, a name for their fans. Uhm, Cody Ko has the chodesters, Kurtis Conner has, uh, folks? Kurtis Town? Citizens! Markiplier has mommy issues--” You can’t help snorting, “So, I’ve been, like, thinking - I know, shocking! - so I was thinking I’m gonna name you cockroaches. Because you’re grimy little shits impossible to kill. And also then I can use the legendary Minaj meme ROACHES!”

Your stream enthusiastically echoes ROACHES, making the chat swim. Yes, if anyone would enjoy such a name, it would be your audience. You’re as equally proud as you are disturbed.

“Well, anyway.” Leaning back into your chair, you throw your arms out with a bright grin, “Big dick is back in town, baby! If you noticed the backdrops different, it’s cuz I’m in Brooklyn now. Don’t ask me when I will return to Always Sunny, I don’t plan that far ahead.”

While Minecraft boots up, you decide to answer a few questions.

r u dating sykkuno?

You want to smack your head into the keyboard, but as it is, you can’t exactly afford a new one, so you refrain, “No, Sykkuno and I are not dating, we are just good friends. Uhm, I’m not sure how much I’ll have to repeat this, but, we really aren’t, so if the roaches could chill - Oh my God, that sounds so stupid, I love it - uh, yeah, if the roaches could chill that’d be great.”

the roaches lmao sounds like we’re a sports team

“Oh shit, yeah it does, uh-- maybe I can make like, jerseys or something. That’d be cool, I think.”

how disappointed are your parents with the way your life turned out?

“My parents are actually not disappointed at all!” You say with a cute little smile, “Uhm, they’re both really proud, actually. They’re glad I found something I love doing and made a job outta it. Dad finds my Youtube videos endearing. Yes, they watch pretty much all of my videos, unless I explicitly tell them not to. And yeah, with all the fucks and thirsting for anime characters. Uhm, it was very embarrassing at first, but I mean, after a while, shame just...doesn’t exist anymore, I guess? Funny thing about my parents, actually, when they watch my videos-” You eye catches a comment, “Oh! No, they only watch my Youtube videos. They don’t know how to use Twitter, thank God. Uhm, anyway-- when they hear a name they don’t know, like, I dunno, Dabi, or something, they google--” You’re grinning by now, eyes crinkling, giggling softly, “--who that is, and buy me like, merch and stuff. It’s really cute. 

can i be adopted by ur parents plz

will you and corpse ever collab?!

You were about to answer, though the man of the hour himself decides to do it for you.

Corpse_Husband: yes.

Okay, not to say your heart skipped a beat, but it totally did. With a pleased smile, you nod, like one of those bobble head toys sold at the dollar store. The motion is oddly reminiscent of Sykkuno’s own nod. Perhaps you had picked it up from him. The chat seems to notice.

pack it up, sykkuno

More questions pile about this mysterious collab you and Corpse are planning. Yeah, you’d like to hear more about it, too, since he single highhandedly decided one was happening right now. Corpse remains silent. Fine, keep your secrets. 

“Okay, guys, oh, I mean, roaches, Oh my God--” You’re covering your mouth, giggling, “-calling all roaches, calling all roaches, calm down. Everyone grab a snack and a blanket I’m turning up the music volume so we can all chill. Entering chill zone. Entering chill zone. Roaches, prepare.”

we are prepared

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An hour or so passes and you grow hungry. It shows with the amount of cakes you had baked in your server. Currently, you find yourself throwing eggs at the wall of one of the renovated houses, your face scrunched in concentration and slight frustration. 24 of the 50 eggs have been wasted. “What’s a girl gotta do to get some chicks around here?” you had uttered under your breath, until, finally, a screech - the egg finally spawns a mob. Your mouth falls open, “Aww, look!” You approach it, so small, walking in zigzags beside you, “It’s a baby chicken! Die, bitch.” The baby chicken is no more as you swing your bedazzled (you have mods) diamond sword. You’re cackling by the time the dust settles.

y/n is a child murderer

“Roaches,” You address your fan-base, spurring another fit of laughter - you can’t get over the name, “I think I’m like, forgetting that eating in Minecraft won’t actually make less hungry in real life.”

take a break and go eat queen <3

“Fuck no, we starve and die like men. Now I actually really need another chicken.”

Another twenty minutes trickle by and you’re trying to lure back a panda from the jungle when there’s a knock on your bedroom’s door. Whipping your head to the side, you slide down your headphones. At the same time, your mom pokes her head through the ajar door, “MOM!” You scream, “Get OUT of my room I’m playing Minecraft!” But your yell has no actual bite to it, as you don’t manage to hide your smile. Your mom laughs, doing some sort of sign language and motioning for you to follow her with her head. That or it’s some sort of performative dance. 

“I’m live right now,” You tell her, pointing at your screen. She knows this already, though, “do you want to say hi?” 

The roaches spam the chat with friendly hellos. You mom, quite impatient now, waves you over. 

“Sorry, roaches, mom needs something. Be back in a bit!”

Stopping the stream, you rush out of your seat and pleased she slinks into the hallway. “What’s this about?”

“Your pizza came.”

“My what now?” You echo, confused.

“Domino’s. You ordered pizza?”

“What? No? I was busy with the stream, I never--”

Thankfully, you had managed to grab your phone from your room before you exited. You almost choke on spit once you read the messages.

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You decide that it’ll be impossible to stream after experiencing what you had just experienced. You tweet out a quick apology to the roaches (God, that fucking name) and say that you had a breakdown but you’re okay. That is as a close to the truth as you managed to muster. It’s a sad sight, chewing and crying; your mom winced when she saw your state - disheveled hair and rundown eyeliner and everything. “D’aww,” She had muttered, caressing the top of your head, “don’t cry my little raccoon.”

If anyone was ever to ask you where did your chaotic nature come from, you’d answer with my mom. To make yourself feel better, you took a selfie - duck face and peace sign and the horrible 2000′s angle. Sent it to Rae. 

looking hot, her message read. 

thanks, was all you replied with.

You couldn’t just leave things as they were. Once you calmed down, you wanted to text Corpse, but how would you follow up the ungodly caps lock and screeching? Impossible. An idea sprung to mind, one that was brave. Taking the first step.

Instead of sending a text, you sent a voice memo.

“Thank you for the pizza, it was delicious.”

You voice still sounded a bit raspy. His reply was instant. Your heart skipped a beat. He sent a voice memo back.

“Glad you liked it, baby.”

He was going to be the death of you.

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tags (in italics is those i couldn’t tag! make sure all’s ok w your settings!) : @littlebabysandboxburritos - @fairywriter-oracle - @tsukishimawh0re - @ofstarsanddreams - @bbecc-a - @annshit - @leahh19 - @letsloveimagines - @bellomi-clarke - @wineandionysus - @guiltydols - @onephootinfrontoftheother - @liamakorn - @thirstyfangirl - @lilysdaydreams - @pan-ini - @mxqicshxp - @tanchosanke - @yoshinorecommends - @flightsandfantasy - @liljennyx3 - @slashersdream - @unknown-and-invisible - @sinister-sleep - @fivedicksinatrenchcoat - @mercury–moon - @peterparkerspjsuit - @unstableye - @simonsbluee - @shinyshimaagain - @ppopty - @siriuslystupid - @crapimahuman - @ofthedewthesunlight - @mythicalamphitrite - @artsyally - @corpsesimpp - @corpsewhitetee - @corpse-husbandsimp - @hyp-oh-critical - @roses-and-grasses - @rhyrhy462 - @sparklylandflaplawyer - @charbkgo - @airwaveee - @creativedogs - @kaitlyn2907 - @loxbbg - @afuckingunicornn - @fleurmoon - @yeolliedokai - @truly-dionysus - @multi-fandom-central707

more tags are in the comments bcs tumblr only allows me to tag 50 people max 💙

[chasingpj]

𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

pairing: leo valdez x gn reader

summary: five ways he says i love you through his actions

warnings: implied nudity and s*x, discusses food and eating and nothing else, i think. oh, and maybe some typos

category: headcanons

love letters/notes

leo is a busy boy

he's always picking up new projects so he can spend all day in his workshop or the forges with his siblings

when you guys live together, he leaves small notes on the refrigerator for you

they're always short, saying simple things like "i love you" and "i miss you already"

for the love letters, he'll leave them in random places for you to find

if you're a big reader, i can see him hiding it between the pages of your book

one day, you pick up your book to read, and the note falls on your lap

it's a love letter written on a piece of blueprint paper; there’s a little bit of oil smudged on the side of it

he got distracted while he was working on something because you were the only thing he could think about

his love letters never fail to make your heart flutter

sometimes they make you cry

he's quite sentimental

leo always tells you he does better writing down his feelings than he is saying it out loud because he can organize his thoughts better

you know that leo has a hard time with that because of how he grew up

when you guys have an argument, which isn't very often, he writes his feelings down on paper

he's always quick to apologize if he did something wrong, and the notes help him form the apology that you deserve, and you're quick to forgive him

once, you were super angry after an argument, so you locked yourself in your shared bedroom

you needed to calm yourself down

the both of you much too angry and stubborn to make a compromise

as your recollecting yourself, 40 minutes in, a folded piece of paper slips from under the door

the letter has teardrop stains, and the ink is slightly smudged

on the paper, it's all his thoughts written out in the best way he can explain them

after reading what he wrote, you quickly deemed that whatever you were fighting about was silly, and you guys made up

you love his spontaneous notes so much that you do them back

you guys have a game of who can find the most creative hiding spot for your notes

one time you found one tapped to the inside of the toilet cover

you found it hilarious

you throw folded post-its with messages in his tool belt

he finds them during the day while he's working on something

after you joined in on the fun, he scatters notes in random places, and every few days, you find a new message hidden somewhere randomly

they're just so sweet; there’s never a time where they don't make you smile

gifts

this is a given

it's not a leo headcanon if gift-giving isn't included

he would make you things like roses from scrap metal to literal furniture

if you have a lot of jewelry, he will make you a cute jewelry box

if you're a big book reader, he'll make you bookcases to support your book collection

he's always giving you little trinkets that he made with leftover materials from projects

he loves making things for you and gets upset when you decide to buy something from ikea instead of asking him

"babe, why would you buy that? I could have just made it for you!"

when he's on his way from returning on his quest, sometimes he'll find something that reminds him of you in a store, and he'll buy it

when he has the money for it, he'd buy you a star :(

says that he spent even more money to buy an extra bright star

because "you're the sun in my universe"

brb gonna cry

also, he'd gift you a bond bracelet

you know, those bracelets where every time you tap on it, it makes the other person's bracelet vibrate

the both of you get anxious when one of you goes on quests, so the bracelets bring the other person who's at home comfort

because when you tap back, at least he knows you're alive and vice versa

one of the best gifts you've ever received from him was your engagement ring

he made it himself

he took so much care and effort into making it

imagine leo forging your wedding ring himself??? i'm in spain with no s

he was so nervous that you wouldn't like the style, so he had piper casually bring it up to you

piper was so nonchalant about it that you didn't even think twice about the question

the ring has the prettiest gemstone or diamond (whatever you prefer)

you cried so hard when he told you he made it himself that you couldn't even say yes to his proposal clearly

he makes both of your wedding bands too

he carves a saying that's dear to the both of you on the inside

this is nothing to do with anything but imagine when you guys have kids, he makes animals out of pipe cleaners for them i'm gonna cry, brb pt 2

overall, whether he makes the present himself or not, he puts a lot of effort and care into it

every gift has a meaning and a place dear to your heart

cooking for you

leo is canoningly a good cook

he loves cooking for you

and you love eating what he makes

he's usually busy on the weekdays, so he cooks on the weekends

you guys always joke that he'd be the cutest househusband

you got him an apron for Christmas as a joke gift one year, and he wears it all the time

there's something so charming about him wearing an apron with a funny saying like "Mr. Good Lookin is Cookin" or with like a ripped out shirtless guy in front of it

you giggle every time you see him wearing it

oh, no matter how many times you've seen it, it's still so bizarre when he takes out hot trays from the oven with his BARE hands

everything he makes tastes amazing

he makes all kinds of food and is always trying something new

if you tell him what you’re craving, he’ll cook it for you

once he woke you up to ask if you wanted ribs… it was 3 am but like, of course, you wanted some

unless you're vegetarian or vegan, sorry, HAHA

often though, he does make Mexican food

it reminds him of when his mom was alive

he always has some story to share

every time he makes caldo de pollo (chicken soup), he always talks about how his mother would make it in the summer and that when he was little, he would always complain about eating hot soup in hot weather

you know he doesn't notice his constant telling of this story, but you don't mind

it's so bittersweet when he talks about his mom

through the cooking of his traditional food, you feel closer to him and his late mother

the memories he shares with you makes your eyes sting with tears

especially when leo says how much he wishes that esperanza could have met you

sorry, that was a little emo

also, leo usually wakes up earlier than you

he knows you're a sleepyhead, so he'll cook breakfast for you

so that when you're running around in the morning trying to get dressed and your things together

you never leave the house hungry because there's always a tupperware filled with breakfast, and if he has enough time, he'll fix you something to take for lunch too

if you come home late from work or school, he'll make dinner even if he's tired to surprise you

so many times you've come home from a shitty day at work or school, and the small table where you guys eat your meals is all set up with your favorite food

leo greets you by peeking his head into the hallway from the kitchen, tossed curls, cheerful brown eyes, and a bright grin

"I hope you're hungry," he says, despite knowing that you are hungry

and then you guys talk and laugh together over a delicious meal

compliments

leo's really observant

he notices when you’re in a bad mood, even if you try not to show it

he also notices when you change little things about your appearance

if you get a haircut or you get your nails done, he'll comment on it right away

especially outfits

if you buy something new, he'll complement it

imagine standing in front of the mirror, looking at yourself in your new outfit

leo comes behind you, his hands coming around your waist

he'll pepper kisses on your neck, a soft hum leaving his lips as he meets your eyes in the mirror

"is this new, mi amor?" he asks, hands running up your sides

once you affirm that it is a new dress or shirt, he'll smile and tell you how beautiful you look in it

maybe says he'd rather see it off of you wink wink

there's never a day where he doesn't compliment you

he thinks you're the prettiest person in the world

you've caught him staring at you lovingly plenty of times

he's just asking himself how did he manage to get someone as beautiful and amazing as you

you always squirm under his gaze and playfully ask what is he looking at

"you're so pretty, mi amor. I can't help it."

AHHH!!!!

alongside the endearment of mi amor, he'd always call you bonita and hermosa

you're so sweet to him, and he can't help but tell you how much you mean to him every chance he gets

surprises

leo is an acts of service kind of guy

i think he'll spontaneously do things to make you happy

if you've been busy studying for finals or just beat up from a day at work

he'll draw you a bath

or he'll cut up some fruit for you and leave it at your desk

he randomly buys you flowers

he never needs an occasion to buy your flowers

it'll be a regular tuesday, leo just happened to walk past a store with flowers displayed in the front, and he thought about how bright your smile would be if he showed up with a bouquet

I feel like he's pretty introverted, enjoys being at home with you

the both of you are pretty broke for a while, so a lot of dates were at home

leo made the most of it

you guys will have nice dinners at home

he'll set the table nicely, set the mood with candles

he'll redecorate the space so well you feel like you're at an actual restaurant

and of course, his food is amazing

breakfast in bed is another thing he'd do for you unsolicited

especially if you guys had a looong night wink wink

you're woken up by his still groggy voice, fluttering kisses on your cheeks

you open your eyes to see he's set a tray with your favorite breakfast on top of the bed

the two of you will eat breakfast together, which usually leads to you staying in bed for the rest of the day

just enjoying the warm cocoon your sheets create around the both of you

overall, he's super observant and caring, and he goes the extra mile to make sure you're happy because he knows you do the same

anyways, does anyone know where I can get a leo?

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